With the release of two hi-end server beasts comes the IBM Redbooks publications take on the 5 things to know. 1. They boot amazingly quick A new system board topology, new flexible intra-CEC cabling, and parallel processing allows multiple components to...

We had American Idol. We had Dancing with the Stars. And now the newest contest these days to win fame and fortune is the IT Server Challenge.
Cisco is working on getting routers to act like servers. To drum up interest , Cisco recently held a contest...

Three articles of interest: 1. Redhats: City of Vienna, Austria has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its server platform of choice. ( http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062154,00.asp ) 2. Redmondians: Apparently some see a pattern exemplified by the...

Just a quick note about using Oracle Solaris with IBM XIV (I so want to say "SUN Solaris", I need to retrain my brain). When using IBM XIV with Solaris, you need to install IBM's XIV Host Attachment Kit (delightfully called a HAK). This is to ensure...

So first The Washington Post makes fun of the candidate's "shirt." Then, The New York Times publishes the candidate's letters from college. It doesn't matter which party or which candidate you support. It's just downright embarrassing. Remember that day...

I have heard a lot of people worry about the future of Java, MySQL , Netbeans and GlassFish after that Oracle acquired Sun. Today I read Adam Bien's Weblog : ...Oracle GlassFish Server is part of the Oracle Fusion
Middleware application grid portfolio and...

At first I thought it was because I stayed up too late last night watching the election speeches. Or because of that half glass of wine at dinner. Then I thought that maybe I was having trouble focusing this morning because of the spring-like weather in...

Interesting and bizarre things have seemed to happen around Halloween this year which make me wonder: Why are bags of candy corn disappearing virtually overnight in my house ? Why are family members getting distraught because they don't know what to be ? Why...

Remember when you were a kid and couldn't wait to get Highlights magazine. Some of us got it in the mail and some of us had to wait until the next visit to the dentist - but it was always a treat. And one of my favorite parts of the magazine was the...

I have been a Jane Austen fan for 30 years. So it is kind of funny to me that only recently have Jane and her novels become truly "hot." I could have predicted it. Austen's novels from so long ago are absolutely relevant today. She is the all time...

Before sunrise and again after sunset there are intervals of time, called twilight, during which there is light provided by the upper atmosphere, which does receive direct sunlight and reflects it toward the Earth. Twilight is also an exciting vampire-romance...

HP's latest Real Story compares IBM and HP TPC-H results. Let's tell the really real story. Both IBM and HP published 128-core results. (1) The IBM p5-575 TPC-H 10TB result has an availability date of 8/30/06 while the HP Superdome result has an...

I used to work on DB2 performance. I may still have my Oracle dartboard in a file drawer. And most of you know how I feel about Sun these days. So it probably comes as no surprise exactly how I feel about the announcement yesterday of Oracle to Buy Sun. And...

This time of year we all start thinking about fall - apple picking, football games, raking leaves, and that epitome of teenage angst, the Homecoming dance.
One of the rules you learned early on was that once you accepted an invite to the dance, it was in...

Word on the street in the WSJ and other sources is that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, in a "combination that would bolster IBM's heft on the Internet, in software and in finance and telecommunications markets." That's a heck of a story to wake up to...

A few weeks ago I went to a bike race. It really is amazing to see all of the exotic equipment used now. Bikes with no peddles, where you just snap your special shoes in. Extremely tight shorts with gel in all sorts of places. And special drinks and...

I'm hangin' at Austin Bergstrom International, preparing to fly east to Orlando to attend a gathering of like-minded interactive marketing peoples. Though I'll be in the Walt Disney World environs, I fear there's no Space Mountain in store for this particular...

Unprotected. Doesn't exactly make you feel good, does it ? Whether we are talking about our country's borders, our homeowner's insurance, or something we learned in health class, it's not good. The Storage Performance Council benchmarks SPC-1 and SPC-2...

Labor Day , coming soon on the first Monday in September, is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of a country....

There is currently a tuna shortage in Japan and sushi is being made from horse. Which may make some people think long and hard about buying this product. One of Sun's recent blog entries about their products highlights the T2000 "Try and Buy" program. This...

In his blog post, [ The Lure of Kit-Cars ], fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) uses an excellent analogy delineating the differences between kit-cars you build from parts, versus fully-integrated systems that you can drive off the car dealership showroom lot. ...

Yesterday, I was in Ann Arbor. And not in San Francisco at Oracle OpenWorld. But I might as well have been.
Ann Arbor is the home of the amazing University of Michigan, one of the great institutions of higher learning in the world. As I sat in a noodle...

Yesterday I took my five month old black lab puppy out to the country. We walked, we ran, and he swam for the very first time. As he was getting ready to plunge into the water, I was taken back to a day 15 years earlier with my previous dog. That dog got...